jove
Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Central) [ˈʒo.βə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈʒo.və]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒo.ve]
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Adjective
jove m or f (masculine and feminine plural joves or (found in part of Western Catalan, including all of Valencia, as well as in Ibiza) jóvens)
- young
- Antonym: vell
- (idiomatic) gent jove, pa tou ― young people have little desire to strive and they want things easy
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
jove m or f by sense (plural joves or (found in part of Western Catalan, including all of Valencia, as well as in Ibiza) jóvens)
Noun
jove f (plural joves or (found in part of Western Catalan, including all of Valencia, as well as in Ibiza) jóvens)
- daughter-in-law
- Synonym: nora
Coordinate terms
Further reading
- “jove”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “jove”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “jove” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “jove” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Occitan
Alternative forms
- joeine, joine (Auvergne)
- joine (Languedoc)
- jòune (Limousin)
- joine, joeine, jouine (Provençal)
- joine, joeine (Vivaro-Alpine)
Etymology
From Old Occitan joven, from Latin iuvenis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
jove m (feminine singular jove, masculine plural joves, feminine plural joves)
Related terms
Further reading
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
jove
- inflection of jova:
- genitive singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural